Yesterday I attended the China Entrepreneurs BizSpark MEGA Angel Investment Forum at the Microsoft Office in Beijing. The first panel discussion was about ‘Finding the right early stage investor’. Of course much of the conversation revolved around the importance of finding a strategic partner that invests ‘smart’ money as opposed to ‘dumb’ money. Meaning, investors […]
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Qihoo 360 Launches Pinterest-like Service
With the #1 online security software (user penetration hit 83.3%), second most-popular browser (user penetration peaked at 57% in last September), largest startup-page (hao360.cn, according to iResearch report) and more than 3 million users at hand, Qihoo360 could easily take the same approach as Tencent did with QQ – to capitalize on its huge user […]
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How To Avoid Obscurity And Become Loved By All: Going Live On Google Play
A How-To-Guide For Android Developers Developers the world over are looking to cash in on the Google Play gold mine, and with 137 percent revenue growth in the first 7 months of this year [1], we really can’t blame you for getting a bit excited. It’s easy to get starry-eyed when you see Rovio’s Angry […]
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PPTV and WASU to Team Up and Bring Innovation to Internet TV in China
This post was contributed by Josh Fenn. PPTV and WASU, two of the most popular internet video-on-demand services in China, announced plans to form a strategic partnership and enter the internet TV space at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. During the announcement, WASU president Mr. Qiang Cao and PPTV CEO Dr. Vincent […]
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The Gold Rush Mentality
Local news broke last week that 360buy is looking to outsource its group buying business while 55Tuan appears to be one of the bidders as the two were rumored to be in discussion about the possibility. Now It’s 360buy’s Turn The 360buy move followed 55Tuan’s taking over of Ganji group buying business two weeks ago. […]
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Baidu Releases Media Player, Potential Threat to Video Aggregator?
Chinese search giant Baidu stealthily released a multipurpose media player, a move to complement its software arsenal, and might be posing potential threat to video aggregators such as Qihoo 360’s new product v.360.cn and Youku’s Soku and to even long-established Baofeng.com, a media player vendor slash online streaming service. Baidu Player Baidu Player, which characterized […]
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Demo Asia: Pitch Idea and Get Funding, Singapore 29 February – 2 March (TN Discount Available)
Demo Asia is an event for ambitious tech start-ups to launch their product, showcase it to a captive audience and attract investment. The upcoming inaugural Demo Asia is scheduled to take place in Singapore from 29 Feb – 2 Mar at the Matrix@ Biopolis. At DEMO Asia, a hand-selected group of new products will make its public […]
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Kayohui, Help Credit Card Holders Find Special Deals
As of the third quarter of 2011, there’re more than 268 million credit cards in circulation in China, according to a statistics by China’s ‘central bank’, the People’s Bank of China. Given the trifling 3 million mark back in 2003, the 90 times growth in less than ten years is quite astonishing. No wonder credit […]
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China Needs 20 More Years to Become Really Innovative
On Saturday I went to a Yale Club of Beijing Masters Tea talk by Xu Xiaoping at Peking University. Xu Xiaoping is one of China’s most prominent angel investors; but not just in the fields of tech start-ups but also film and philanthropy. At the end of 2011, his angel fund Zhenfund announced its partnership […]
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P2P Lending Industry and a Practioner’s Experiences in Entrepreneurship in China
P2P Lending in China I have been fascinated and in love with the concept of P2P (peer-to-peer) lending for over 3 years, including writing numerous business plans, studying various models across different countries, working in what has become the largest and most successful peer-to-peer lending company in the world based in China, to now, founding […]
